... dinner. We are across the road from ' The Handerly' another hotel I considered, and not far from Union square.

On very good advice, we headed to top floor of Macy's, the cheesecake restaurant (which serves huge meals). It looked great, but the wait time was one hour, and it was already 9pm. We will do it another night.

We ended up in Chinatown with a really good Japanese dinner, so we were all happy.

... site. I was back to borrowing chargers and using clever ways to charge things whilst waiting for our universal charger we left in Perth to make its way up to Exmouth. I treated us to a yummy spaghetti bolognaise.

The next day was my birthday and Tara had a lovely surprise lined up for me. After breakfast I drove us but Tara was directing me where we were going. After 15min of lefts and rights and one or two wrong turns we made it to my birthday surprise... Carnarvon ...

... waived the cost for him. Of course. We took the day off from any lessons on Tuesday and enjoyed a relaxo day by the pool/beach. Elizabeth and Jack loved it. Yesterday, being Wednesday, we went to Salinas for the day to visit the National Steinbeck Centre. We had to explain to the kids that there were certain things that we would do for them, but we were also going to be doing things for the adults. Off we went to Salinas and drove through acres of farm ...

... br> Centre. The close photo shot with the giant Asian Owl who was eyeing off Rossi’s not really that big right ear, was a treat.

By the way, how do you build fences when you have plenty of straight timber? You do it zig-zag fashion. Some are a hundred years old and still standing. They criss-cross meadows like cross stitching on green fabric.